The Chronicles of Light II: An amulet, a matrix, and a certain blue box.
At Sweet Apple Acres
Previous ChapterNext ChapterMarc gracefully and swiftly parked BumbleBee as Jim parked the scooter.
“Alrighty Bee.” Marc said as everyone got out. “Stay here, and only act if there are Cybertronian threats. Any thing else, I can handle.”
“Alright.” BumbleBee said. Then he decided to powered down for a bit.
"That was interesting, to say the least." Jim said to his friends.
"Agreed." Jack said. "I don't know why, but, Marc is strange, to say the least."
"Agreed." Claire observed. "Yet he seems to have a deeper secret."
"Ya think?" Miko asked. "He has Bucket Head's phone number."
"He's not telling us everything, otherwise, if he was a normal teen, he wouldn't have the attention and/or trust of Merlin." Jim stated."Merlin!"
“Ahem.” Marc said catching the groups attention. “We’re at the door.”
He went to knock, but the door handle turned, Marc, on instinct, whipped out his pen.
The door knob turned slowly.
Then the door opened. Out of the door walked out.......
"Tempest Shadow?" Applejack asked.
"Yes?" Tempest asked.
"What are ya doin' here?" Applejack asked.
"Tutoring Apple Bloom." Tempest answered truthfully.
"Which subject?" Applejack asked curious.
"Chemistry." Tempest answered.
"Hmmm." Marc said giving Tempest an eyebrow.
"Well I gotta go." Tempest said walking out of the doorway.
Marc muttered a warning in Cinnigaran to Tempest.
Then Tempest replied in Cinnigaran.
"What was that about?" Jack asked Velvet.
"Not sure." Velvet answered truthfully.
They all walked inside.
"Hey, Apple Bloom." Marc said to Applejack's little sister sitting in the living room of the farmhouse.
Apple Bloom had light yellow skin and wore a big red bow on her red hair, she wore a light green shirt and blue jeans. She had orange eyes and wore light orange boots. Quite the cute Cowgirl.
"Hey Marc." Apple Bloom said.
"Hey Apple Bloom, why didn't ya tell me ya need a tutor?" Applejack asked.
"It's fine, you wanna do somethin' tagether?" Apple Bloom asked.
"Naht right now, me and mah friends are gonna 'ave a slumber party." Applejack said disappointing the young farm girl.
"Aww, alright, see ya then, Piggly Wiggly." Apple Bloom said earning a shocked look from Marc and murmurs of confusion from the other guests as she went to her room.
In AJ's bedroom.
Everyone was just hanging out. The Trollhunters and Prime Teens were mingling with the girls.
Marc looked at AJ's gaming consoles. One was a Wii and the other was an Xbox one.
"Most impressive." Marc admitted.
"Thank ya kindly, Marc." Applejack said.
"Hey, I got some cool games for us to play." Marc said grabbing his backpack and getting something from it.
"What games?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Well first, Watch_Dogs." Marc said grabbing out the game. The cover had a man in a brown coat and dark baseball cap. His face was covered by a scarf that had some sort of logo on it.
"Hey, that guy on the cover kinda looks like Mr. Pierce." Pinkie said, pointing out the man on the cover.
"That's Aiden Pierce; Hacker vigilante of Chicago." Marc stated. "But good point, they are ALOT a like(in more ways than one)."
Then he pulled out several other games and pointed them out. "Assassin's Creed, the story Arabian master Assassin of Altair and his race for the Apple of Eden. Assassin's Creed II, the story of Ezio and his search for vengance. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, still Ezio and (I think) him starting an Italian bureu. Assassin's Creed Revelations, Ezio searches for the Apple of Eden that Altair stored in the library of Masyaf castle.
to name a few."
Then he pulled out the rest AC III, AC Rogue, AC IV Blackflag, AC Unity, AC Syndicate, and one more.
"And now, last but certainly not least, the story of how the Creed came to be, the story of Bayek, the first of the Hidden Ones, later to be called the Assassins Brotherhood, behold, Assassin's Creed Origins!" Marc stated pulling it out.
Velvet Breeze, was, shocked, for lack of better word.
"So." Marc said. "Who wants to play first and which game?"
At least an hour later. Every one had pyjamas on.
Rarity, Sunset and AJ were on the bed as AJ got her nails done by Rarity(after much insistance). Marc was reading H.G Wells' The Time Machine. Everyone else was either chatting or taking turns playing the video games Marc brought.
"Dang it!" Rainbow Dash said as she desynced (again) because the character was killed by Al Mualim, the Assassin Mentor that went evil for the Apple of Eden. "Velvet, you wanna go?"
"Why not?" Velvet said, seemingly used to the games now. "But Marc?"
"Oui?" Marc said looking up from his book.
"Why did the Assassins cut off their ring fingers to use the wrist blades?" Velvet asked slightly grossed out by it.
"Two reasons, one, it was a ritual that all recruits did to prove their loyalty," Marc answered.
"And two?" Applejack asked.
"Bayek accidentally cut off his ring finger when he first used it and thus it became an indoctrination ritual." Marc stated. "But, that problem was fixed by Leonardo Da Vici for Ezio's Beurue."
"Oh, cool." Velvet said.
"Wait, THE Leonardo Da Vinci?" Sci-Twi asked.
"Yes, a cool part about these games is you meet or are friends with historical characters." Marc stated. "Any way AJ, can I ask you a question?"
"Sure, shoot." Applejack said.
"Okay, why did Apple Bloom call you that nickname?" Marc asked. "Piggly Wiggly?"
"Well when ah was just a young 'un, I used to follow Granny Smith 'round durin' her chores. Ah used to play round in the pig pen alot, so, the nickname just stuck." Applejack explained, slightky shocking Marc.
"Oh, if it makes you feel better, my Mom calls me bugaboo sometimes." Marc admitted.
"Why's that?" Velvet asked.
"That's just how mothers are." Marc said shrugging.
"Hmm, I guess." Velvet said.
"Sorry." Marc said noticing her sadness.
"It's alright, I'm tough, I'll be fine." Velvet reassured.
"On a less sad note." Rainbow Dash said trying to lighten the mood. "I like....your.......video games........Marc?"
Believe it or not. She nailed it.
"Thanks." Marc said, beaming.
Marc was tossing and turning in his sleep. Then he woke with a start.
Marc's body shot up. Marc looked round and saw it was still dark out, he glanced at his watch.
'Uh, 12:13? Maybe some cider will help me since I don't have any sleeping pills.' Marc thought.
'Oh, sure, try to get drunk, remember Teenax?' Nebulass said to Marc.
'How could I forget?' Marc thought as he remembered the dark day and rubbed his left bicep.
Then he got up and tip toed over various guest resting in sleeping bags. But he tripped on Sunset and Sci-Twi and almost fell on them. But then he shifted his wait and did the famous Michael Jackson lean. He always had moves that could match the King of Pop, Freedom Fighter training went along a little better and swifter because of this.
Then he got back up right and walked over them.
"And That's how you Beat It in the more Thriller moments like quite the Bad Smooth Criminal." Marc punned earning a long groan from Nebulass.
Then he walked down to the kitchen humming Smooth Criminal.
Marc opened the fridge and looked for a heavy beverage, even though he's underage, this isn't the first time he's tasted alcohol. In fact, that's how he met 3 strange singers from the court of Dawn Saber.
He lied when he said he doesn't get drunk, in fact, he's on the razor's edge of light wait. He just doesn't get hangovers from it.
He pulled out a bottle of some hard cider. He sat down at the table and opened it, and took a swig.
"Not as good as rum." Marc said licking his lips."But it's good enough."
"Y'know, Marc, aren't you a little too young to drink?" A familiar voice said.
"Sunset, Velvet, Sci-Twi." Marc said barely surprised. "And yes, yes I am, I'm thirteen to be specific."
"Wait, a thirteen year old God?" Sci-Twi asked shocked.
"Well host, but yes." Marc shrugged taking another swig.
The trio was more than a little shocked.
"Host?" Velvet asked.
"Yes, I'm the host for Nebulass, not Nebulass himself." Marc stated.
"Marc." Nebulass said. "Tread carefully."
"Why Neb?" Marc said pissed off and slightly drunk. "Why should I? Because of you being a coward I lost my family! So, why should I keep lying, besides, this is Velvet Breeze, the Phoenix Warrior and a prodigy with a great future! So why shouldn't they get the full story, of Cinnigara, of you, of that black robed, half-mask wearing bastard of a bitch of a God, of me?!"
Nebulass had nothing to say at this.
The trio was shocked and slightly afraid after what they heard.
"Who are you talking too?" Velvet asked.
"Nebulass, he lives in my head, it's slightly annoying." Marc stated bluntly as he took another swig.
"Y-you, lost your family?" Sci-Twi asked.
"Yes, Yes I did, Nebulon kidnapped my parents and brother as bargaining chips to get my power." Marc stated taking another swig, then he continued. "I wasn't always the hardened, cold, tactical warrior and wizard you see before you. I had my younger brother, my Mother, and my Father. But Nebulon, he took them at least a year after I joined the Fighters as either bargaining chips or torture toys. The've been his prisoners for a few months now. And I've lost almost all hope of finding them. All I can do is kill every single cruel Blighter or Demon I find and send them to Satan myself."
"Nebulon is a monster, he's worse than Sombra ever was it seems." Velvet said.
"Well, like Sombra, he wasn't always a Monster." Marc said taking a swig. "Once, he was as kind and gentle as Fluttershy, as fun loving as Pinkie, as honest as Applejack, as smart as Sci-Twi, as empathetic as Sunset Shimmer. But, one day, he went into the forbidden vault of Cinnigara's high palace. When he went in there, he found Dakar's armory, Dakar is the Dark side of the Aether itself, to answer your next question and once ruled with my mother Lighteem, the Light." Nebulass said."In there he found a shard of Dakar's helmet and it bonded itself to the skin of his face. It seems a shard of Dakar still resides in the shard. It corrupted Nebulon's mind and soul, Sunset Shimmer saw the rest when she found my half-sister, Necarina. i'm sorry it took this way for you to find out. But do not tell the others, this is a tad personal for us." Marc finished as he drained the bottle. "I'll never forget the vow I made for them."
"Okay." Sunset said.
"Thank You." I said.
Marc P.O.V
"Marc!" Screamed my Mom as she and my family were carried away by the demon king Grimstone.
"No!" I screamed breaking the sword lock between me and Nebulon, I tried to get my parents anyway I could, but they already went through a Boom Tube, I turned to see Nebulon, but he got away as well. I was, broken, my family taken, I took a moment to cry, but through my sobs, I made a vow. A vow to never give up, to rescue my parents and keep them safe. And to kill Nebulon
"There's still one thing I'm unclear on." Velvet said.
"Why am I in not in middle school instead of high school?" Marc asked.
"Yes." Velvet said.
"It's part of my cover, after I was found out at my school, I had to relocate. But I went on a search for my family." Marc explained. "But after I was sucked into the Age of Kings. My world was somehow merged to yours and I was sent to CHS after a while to stop the Council of Shadow."
"Oh." Velvet said.
"How bout we head back up?" Sci-Twi suggested.
They all nodded and went back up.
Author's Note
Okay. Getting a lot of Bad Blood from my stories. I'm sorry if I seem "Gary Stu-ish" in my writing. I'm a struggling author. Sorry, not an excuse. Anyway, I'll try to do better as it progresses.
As always, thoughts, opinions, ideas. All in the comments as long as it's appropriate.
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